Heather Mack has been sentenced to 26 years in federal prison for conspiring with her boyfriend to murder her mother and hide her body in a suitcase at a resort in Bali in 2014. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly described the crime as brutal and premeditated in handing down the sentence. Mack will not receive credit for the seven years she served in Indonesian prison for the beating death of her mother. She was then deported back to the U.S. and faces additional federal charges.
Mack was given a sentence of 26 years in prison, and she will not be able to withdraw her guilty plea. Under her plea agreement, she admitted to conspiring with her boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer, to kill her mother. Heather Mack did not receive an additional seven years off of her sentence in the United States for time served in Indonesia. Schaefer is still serving his 18-year prison sentence in Indonesia for also killing Mack’s mother.
Mack stated in court that she was sorry for killing her mother and had an emotional reaction that was previously unseen. Her uncle said that if it were up to him, Mack would spend the rest of her life in prison. Prosecutors contended that Mack had shown little remorse and even tried to profit from her crime by selling her story to the media. Mack’s attorneys argued that a sentence longer than 15 years would be a waste of resources and would harm her relationship with her 8-year-old daughter. Mack claimed in court that she is not the same person she was ten years ago and that she loves and misses her mother. The defense team has yet to decide whether Mack will serve her time in Illinois or Colorado, where her daughter lives.
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